Obama receives congratulations from world leaders
CHICAGO - President-elect Obama accepted congratulations from nine presidents and prime ministers Thursday, returning calls from world leaders who reached out after his presidential victory.
Nations:Mexico U.K. South Korea Canada Afghanistan Iraq People:Kevin Rudd Lee Myung-Bak Nicolas Sarkozy Gordon Brown Felipe Calderon Ehud Olmert Activities:Obama Admin. US Election 2008
2008-11-06
North Korea threatens to reduce South to debris
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's military threatened on Tuesday to use everything in its arsenal to reduce South Korea to rubble unless Seoul stops civic groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the communist state.
Nations:North Korea South Korea People:Lee Myung-Bak Kim Jong Il Activities:North Korea-South Korea Source:(Reuters)
2008-10-28
North Korea threatens to freeze ties with South
North Korea threatened Thursday to cut all ties with South Korea, saying the new conservative government is a U.S. toady engaged in reckless confrontation with its neighbor.
Nations:North Korea South Korea People:Lee Myung-Bak Kim Jong Il Activities:North Korea-South Korea Source:(AP)
2008-10-16
North Korea to resume nuclear dismantlement
North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program Tuesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a terrorism blacklist as a reward under a disarmament pact.
Nations:North Korea Russia Japan South Korea People:Ban Ki-moon Christopher Hill Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis Source:(AP)
2008-10-14
Diplomats: N. Korea lifts ban on nuke inspections
North Korea has lifted its ban on U.N. nuclear inspectors and is again allowing them access to the plutonium-producing plant it used to set up an atomic test explosion, diplomats said Monday.
Nations:North Korea South Korea Russia Japan People:Kim Jong Il Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis Source:(AP)
2008-10-13
NKorea to resume dismantling nuclear facilities
North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.
Nations:North Korea Japan South Korea Russia People:Christopher Hill Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis North Korea-U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-10-12
NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal
After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."
Nations:South Korea Japan Russia North Korea People:Christopher Hill Barack Obama John McCain Condoleezza Rice Kim Jong Il Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis North Korea-U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-10-11
Sources: US nears removing NKorea from terror list
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned.
Nations:South Korea North Korea People:Christopher Hill Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis North Korea-U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-10-10
McCain, Obama trade barbs in town hall debate
John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama "that one," Obama mocked McCain's "Straight Talk Express," and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.
Nations:Afghanistan North Korea Pakistan Russia People:Sarah Palin Barack Obama John McCain Tom Brokaw Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-10-08
McCain, Obama clash over causes, cures of crisis
Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for a sweeping $300 billion program to shield homeowners from mortgage foreclosure.
Nations:Afghanistan North Korea Pakistan Russia People:Barack Obama John McCain Tom Brokaw Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-10-07
US nuclear envoy brings new proposal to NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea - The chief U.S. nuclear negotiator arrived in North Korea Wednesday carrying a compromise aimed at salvaging a derailed nuclear disarmament pact, officials said.
Nations:North Korea South Korea Russia Japan People:Christopher Hill Kim Jong Il Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis North Korea-U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-09-30
War and taxes divide McCain, Obama in first debate
OXFORD, Miss. - In a faceoff that returned again and again to judgment, John McCain portrayed himself as a battle-tested elder running against a naive rookie, while Barack Obama suggested the Republican is a hothead who made the wrong choices on the Iraq war, corporate taxes and more.
Nations:North Korea U.S. People:Barack Obama Sarah Palin Joseph Biden Mahmoud Ahmadinejad John McCain Activities:US Election 2008
2008-09-27
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